Chapter 13 – Everyone Has Some Fear
The storm was now in full rage and except for the noises from the storm, the cave was silent. Nobody paid attention to anyone, until Shippo broke the silence with his question.
"Why is the storm so frightening?" He asked and everyone but Sesshoumaru looked at him. Though, the little fox caught even his attention, but he didn't want to show it.
"There is no reason in particular, why are people scared of the storm." Kagome answered promptly and everyone now looked at her. They were also thinking about how to answer him, but she answered in such a short time, that they didn't give it too long and now waited for her to explain. Sesshoumaru just kept listening. He was curious about what this girl was going to say.
"My guess is, that it is caused by the lack of knowledge about why and how is this happening. The more you know about some mystery, the less mysterious it is for you. I think it is the same with the fear. Sometimes it is caused by a bad experience and sometimes you are just afraid of something without reason at all. For example I am afraid of earthworms and centipedes and all kinds of those little creepy-crawlies, even though that I know that they won't harm me."
She finished her explanation and there was silence for a while as everyone thought about it. Sesshoumaru was thinking too. She said very similar explanation as I was told that time, but this one was said in better way. Why did he see such similarities between that and this priestess? That priestess was already dead. She wouldn't be able to live so long and she wasn't even from this region. But he was again disturbed from his thoughts by the fox kid.
"So, maybe the storm scares me so much because my dad was killed by the thunder brothers?" Shippo asked and Kagome nodded to him.
"Yeah, it is possible." He curled closer to her and she embraced him.
"But I am surprised that you came up with such a good explanation in such a short time." This time it was Sango who was speaking. Everyone's attention turned at Kagome again, because they were thinking about the same.
"I thought about it quite a lot lately, because not long ago I was asked the same thing by a little boy and at that time I didn't know what to say at all. I managed to give him at least some explanation, but I don't think it was a good one." Everyone nodded without further questions, but one set of eyes widened in surprise.
It can't be her, how would she do it? It's more than 500 years and moreover she stated that it happened not long ago. Could it be just a coincidence? The others caught the hint for conversation and started to talk about everyone's fears. He didn't want to think about that priestess, so he listened to them.
"Inuyasha, are you afraid of something?" Sango asked mockingly, but he just growled.
"Come on, don't leave Kagome and Shippo be the only one who revealed what are their fears." She pleaded.
"So, what about you?" He snapped. There was a short silence, but not too long.
"I was once afraid of demons. When I trained to be a demon slayer, the others told me scary stories and when I was to go to my first extermination, I was scared to death. But by the time it went better and currently I am most afraid about Kohaku." Not much time passed when Miroku took the word.
"I am afraid that I will be once sucked up with my wind tunnel. I am not so concerned about my own life. I already learned how to live with this thought, but I am scared that I could take someone else with me." He finished and the next who took the word was Rin.
"I was once scared of bandits, because they killed my family and the wolfs, because they killed me. But as long as I am with Lord Sesshoumaru I am not scared of anything." She smiled and turned at the told dog demon.
"Lord Sesshoumaru, are you scared of something?" She asked innocently. Nobody expected that he would answer, even Rin, but the more they all were surprised by his answer.
"Everyone has some fear, Rin."